[Ekiga-list] Ekiga "configuration" error

[Julien Puydt]

arnuld a écrit :
>> On 5/23/07, Julien Puydt <jpuydt at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>>> what is the meaning of "-1.4" ?
>> It means that if ekiga doesn't precise the required automake version,
>> then it will require 1.4.
> 
> ok, thanks. i will call it the "default fallback" ;-)
> 
>> Search for the following piece of code :
>>
>> case $REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION in
>>      1.4*) automake_progs="automake-1.4" ;;
>>      1.5*) automake_progs="automake-1.10 automake-1.9 automake-1.8
>> automake-1.7 a
>> utomake-1.6 automake-1.5" ;;
>> ....[SNIP]..........
>> it gives the names and priority under which the automake executables are
>> searched. Do you have "automake-1.10" in your path ?
> 
> 
> NO i dont have it. see:
> 
> case $REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION in
>     1.4*) automake_progs="automake-1.4" ;;
>     1.5*) automake_progs="automake-1.5 automake-1.6 automake-1.7
> automake-1.8 automake-1.9" ;;
>     1.6*) automake_progs="automake-1.6 automake-1.7 automake-1.8
> automake-1.9" ;;
>     1.7*) automake_progs="automake-1.7 automake-1.8 automake-1.9" ;;
>     1.8*) automake_progs="automake-1.8 automake-1.9" ;;
>     1.9*) automake_progs="automake-1.9" ;;
> esac
> version_check automake AUTOMAKE "$automake_progs" $REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION \
>     "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-$REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz"
> || DIE=1
> ACLOCAL=`echo $AUTOMAKE | sed s/automake/aclocal/
> 
> 
> i should add "1.10" there like you wrote ?
> 
> so this a BUG of my distro ?

Well, I guess your distribution doesn't ship a recent enough 
gnome-common package. Here I see in this package's ChangeLog :
2006-12-01  Kjartan Maraas  <kmaraas at gnome.org>

         * macros2/gnome-autogen.sh: Make automake 1.10 work too.

Snark